Posts Tagged ‘ telepresence ’

As many of you know, my views on video conferencing are contrary, if not downright sacrilegious. Those views come from deep reflective research, the kind of research that gives you an answer other than the one you wanted, but you can’t ignore it. So today we have a true expert, and I don’t mean that sarcastically, in video…

I have released a brief whitepaper summarizing my contrary position with respect to “videoconferencing”. The paper is titled: Practical Applications of Low-cost Network-Based Video: Beyond Videoconferencing as a Substitute for Face-To-Face and is available at the following link: http://www.toyz.org/whitepapers/video_social2009.html This paper was originally written in 2003 but I was not able to publish until now,…

Tsahi Levent-Levi at the TMC Talking Video blog refers to my recent post on video in which he says: Andrew MacDonald tried to see what’s his perceived audio quality threshold. He shows that improving audio quality improves the medium and the cues it provides. Ok, no problem. Many years of research bear this out. Audio…

A tweet from Dina Mehta via Mark Petrovic pointed me to an article titled The psychology of videoconferencing that refers to some research Cisco recently released. Cisco says: [research published in 1971] revealed that only seven per cent of our understanding comes from pure words, and that 40 per cent is gleaned from the tone…

This week we’ve seen many references to “recently released” research suggesting that videoconferencing may finally be ready to take off. Videoconferencing – a much talked about, but seldom-used technology – may finally be earning its spurs within the enterprise. 85 per cent of respondents polled either use or plan to use video conferencing. Forty one…

Cisco is pushing Telepresence hard as “the next big thing” and a lot of people are buying into the hype and referring to it in language like “new” and “next generation” technology. I have news for you. Telepresence has been around for decades, at least in research circles. It used to be called Videoconferencing and…